"Old, Settled, and Reformed" Is Coming at You Like a Freight Train

Doug Wilson:

Where will the young, restless and Reformed be in thirty years? At least two/thirds of that now familiar equation will be “old and settled” instead of young and restless. Hopefully you will still be Reformed, if you stand fast, and pay no attention whatever to the theologians of Academe, in whatever their latest attempt might be to escape from the clutches of the apostle Paul.

Being old will be God's doing—he controls all the speed settings on that conveyor belt called time. In fact, he appears to have welded them in their current position.

Being settled is where the trouble might lie. This is often a function of selling out, of compromising, of selling your soul to the devil at the crossroads. But there is another kind of settlement, the kind that comes to a man who has faithfully fought the good fight assigned to him. When Samwise got back to the Shire, his marriage to Rosie was not a case of selling out. It is appropriate to be restless (even when you have grayed some) about what God has not yet done in the future. But it is never good to be restless about what God has already given. Thank him for it, and build on it.

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